Thursday, 30 January 2014

Question time : Refugee edition

David Dimbleby presents the topical debate from Norwich. On the panel
are Conservative cabinet minister Ken Clarke MP, shadow attorney general
Emily Thornberry MP, Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott, comedian and
feminist activist Kate Smurthwaite, and director general of the
Institute of Economic Affairs Mark Littlewood.
4 out of 5 in favour of terrorists retaining their passports I think.

Scoring.2 pt for a correct guess of the colour or pattern of Dimbleby's tie.{before 10pm}2 pt for an accurate spot for each of the question asked2 pt for being the sole entrant to correctly predict a question asked1 arbitrary point for any partially
correct questions, witty phrases, spotting the soundbite, joke, tweet or
posting in the comments first.And the league table will be winner = 1pt
Everyone else - Zero.Twitter-
its often better than the actual show. And its jammed full of earnest
political studies university students and their mickey taking History
and English taking friends

1 Syria and how many refugees is enough?2 Judges being over ruled by politicians. Have the wiggies had this coming for their ever increasing stupid rulings?3 Floods! Is this global warming?Or just a lack of planning and personnel.4 50p tax rate. Why not copy the french 75% for football millionaires?5 Phone hacking. Now the Mirror are involved should the judges just forget the whole thing?

1. 50p tax rate; since the bankers are swimming in bonus cash, why aren't we grabbing it all?2. What's the Environment Agency's job if not to prevent flooding, and why hasn't anyone been fired?3. The insanity of term time holiday fines.4. Smoking banned in cars, what's the next ban?5. Should we be condoning Russia's anti-gay attitude by going to Sochi? It's not like we're going to win anything...

Who the heck is Kate Smurthwaite? You're pulling our legs, aren't you BQ?

(0) predominantly silver(1) floods rain floods floods(2) and another variant on floods(3) I tried in vain for the Scotty-pound question last week so I'll try again(4) portmanteau refugee / immigration question, trying to lure Ken into outraging Tory backbenchers(5) I also tried Ukraine unsuccessfully, so another go at that, too

1. 50% tax. Are they paying their fair share or being paid more than their fair share? Don’t worry, it is only temporary according to Balls Up.

2. There has to be a justice question for brown suede shoes. In fact you could het immigration, crime and the EU all in one as what they propose to deport criminals could be illegal under EU law. Go for it, boys.

3. Kiddies and choice. Do they choose to be born? Do they choose Silk Cut or Marlboro Lights? My car is my home.

1) When is just ONE of the lazy, supine, witless hacks, who work for what is still laughingly termed the "mainstream media", going to point out that Dave's EU "reform/renegotiation/referendum" "pledge/promise" is a cynical lie told with the deliberate intent of deceiving naive voters who genuinely care about whether the UK continues to exist as an independent nation-state?

Too late for a Dimbletie I suppose? anyway I'll go for blue and grey stripes.

This is the 'peasants are revolting edition' courtesy of the BBC europhile greenies.

1. The peasants are revolting about a little bit of water. Haven't they heard that the E.A. is there to prohibit drainage maintenance so that wading birds can rule the roost (so to speak)? Anyway it's global warming guv innit?

2. The peasants are revolting about a few immigrants. Oh horrors this means they are attacking the EU's free movement policy. They should be shot on sight right away, says Ken.

3. The peasants are revolting for an EU referendum - we've scotched that says Ken. UKIP are a bunch of fruitcakes and loonies? Did I really say that says Ken.

4. The peasants are revolting in the Ukraine - they want to join the EU - these peasants are sensible fellows says Ken. Should we send in our aircraft carriers?

5. Will the global economy shudder to halt due to revolting BRICS leading to a peasants' revolt? Sorry, I'm quite comfortably off says Ken.

DTp - Thornton face Thornberry was her dreadful self again. A 'b' team squad player that Labour insist is A material. She is the Adel Taarabt of politics. - 8

Hello Barry. No guesses?

Malcolm - 8

ND - 4

DJK - 8

MW - 8

hopper - 6 {Kate is a feminist comedienne and was actually even less amusing than that sounds. She had a very standup habit of rushing all her words together without pause. probably an anti heckler trick. I expect she needs it.}

BE - 3

Measured 8

KT - 1 question? Love the tie idea though. - 2

Timbo - 3

Budgie - 4 {and it was a bit of a greenie edition. The audience applauded 'more green energy' AND 'lower fuel bills' as if the two were possible.}

Winner - lots on 8. An easy QT this week. Winner was DTp as the 'smokin' abuse' was portrayed that way.

DTP prize is to suggest a job that Emily Thornberry might actually be able to do.